The Great Sixty Eight...

[Frands]

 

[Nai Noswad]

Released in October of this year(Savage B-side)

The Factory - Path Through The Forest.

 

[Nai Noswad]

I'm not baked enough to post this but I did!

The Smack - Purple Haze.

 

[Nai Noswad]

Cracking tune, penned by R. Dean Taylor (motowns Second white star)

Diana Ross & The Supremes - Love Child.

 

[Nai Noswad]

Just dug this Mainstream label disc out.... (must have been a London purchase)... Was big time into them years ago... Part of Boston's "bosstown scene"... They never released on single the best song!
'One Is A Lonliest Number'.... which was then nabbed by Three Dog Night... anyways enuff waffle - 1968 all over it.

The Tangerine Zoo - Young Dream.

 

[OldHippie]

Lots of good music in '68.

Some pretty crummy social/political/historical events though. MLK assassination in April. Bobby Kennedy 2 months later. Riots all over the U.S. in protest of the Vietnam War. A number of other things that I'm not going to go into.

But the music... yeah, some great stuff that year.

(a short sample of some of the outstanding music from 1968):

* Cream - White Room
* Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
* Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
* Beatles - Hey Jude
* Zombies - Time of the Season
* CCR - Suzie Q
* Doors - Hello, I Love You
* Guess Who - These Eyes
* Hendrix - Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
* Deep Purple - Hush

... and so many more

All played on AM radio.

 

[Nai Noswad]

As a kid i haunted two places the library and the cinema (both providing a cornucopia of escapism).. Kitchen Sink Drama was the strapline of the time - to me it was my life reflected on screen. Abortion, dead end jobs, poverty and the pub... All the ingredients for movie reality.

Manfred Mann's theme tune was dreamy..

 

[Nai Noswad]

Discovered these 50 odd years after 1968...a great NYC band, releasing one album. I found a re-release cd copy and it's on repeat here.
Did another band record 'The Great Brain Robbery'? (it's sounds familiar)
Anyways :

Autosalvage - Autosalvage.

 

[dr wu]

Great year ..........started my senior year then but graduated in may 69.
One of my favorite albums and track came out 68, but didnt really get fully into it until fall of 69.

'Ride My See Saw'- Moody Blues

 

[Mr Mojo Risin]

Bands like this... and MC5... Pure proto-metal

Blue Cheer - Doctor Please